Opinion

Recent news reports show students at Deer Creek Public Schools licking peanut butter off other individuals’ feet as part of a fundraising event.

Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs star and host of How America Works, has recently unloaded on Gen Z. Rowe said that the importance of hard work is on the way out, and we have seen the last days of a work ethic being a virtue.

He said that work ethic, personal responsibility, delayed gratification and a decent attitude were expected in the workplace, and those days are gone.

Gen Zers never had a paper route.

“What’s crazy,” Jon Stewart noted in his Feb. 12 return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, “is thinking that we’re the ones as voters who must silence concerns and criticisms. It is the candidate’s job to assuage concerns, not the voter’s job not to mention them.”

The concerns in question revolve around the two major parties likely 2024 presidential nominees’ public and obvious displays of seemingly severe cognitive impairments.

I once wrote that “scientists are right about climate change.” I long opposed logging clear-cuts and excessive drilling. I even voted for the Green Party candidate (gasp!) for president. But this longtime supporter of environmentalism has completely abandoned its modern instantiation. Here are five reasons why.

1. Failed climate change predictions

Science is about accurate prediction. If Newton’s theory had failed to predict how apples fall, then it would be useless.

Over three years of Biden administration, foreign policy has led to national security crisis after crisis. First, the Biden administration has provided worse than absentee leadership on our immigration system and border security policy.

According to a report issued by Special Counsel Robert K. Hur on Feb. 8, his investigation found “evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

Nikki Haley recently provoked a firestorm of controversy for failing to name slavery when asked by journalists what caused the Civil War. A chorus of critics, including President Joe Biden, censured her response. Biden declared, “Let me be clear for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.”

On Dec. 19, Colorado’s Supreme Court deemed former president Donald Trump ineligible to appear on the state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot.

In a 4-3 ruling, the court held that Trump had engaged in “insurrection” and was therefore disqualified from returning to the presidency per the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.

Most opinion and analysis on this ruling (and other similar cases working their way through other states court systems) revolves around particular questions:

Was the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot an insurrection?

Canadian County CASA Inc. (Court Appointed Special Advocates) recently welcomed its newest volunteers.

Lynn Rodrigues, Talor Anderson and Savannah Carnes made the extraordinary commitment to give their time to help abused and neglected children in our community.

Judge Bob Hughey swore in our new volunteers. They have just been appointed to their first CASA case and are excited to begin their journey in becoming a valuable advocate for children in need.

Sound advice from U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT): “As a rule, Americans shouldn’t trust any bill so large that it has to be delivered by handcart.” He’s referring to the latest National Defense Authorization Act, which weighs in at more than 3,000 pages.

Stopping at “Americans shouldn't trust any bill” would improve Lee’s rule, but he’s a politician, so let’s give him some (cough) Lee-way and credit him with a good start.